which gives a compelling idea of why it is such a popular framing device and why many people keep going back to it as readers. It displays real tragedy on the visceral physical, not only emotional, level:

“Not cheap accidental tragedy, but the real kind, the inevitable, ironic kind where the hero gets disabused of his illusions in the instant after he is ruined.”

There is also much talk in the scifi community about how the coming change in the political world will effect the grow of the “genre”.